Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.